[Bug 327236] [NEW] kmail fails if ~/.kde4 unavailable

[Tony Green]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: kmail

KDE4 on Kubuntu 8.10 has supposedly migrated all user kde files from
~/.kde4 to ~/.kde.

Noticing that some residual ~/.kde4 files and directories had been
created, I deleted these. As soon as I did this and tried to use Kmail,
it crashed.

Attempting to re-start it, I get a pop-up error: 
"KMail could not create folder '/home/tony/.kde4/share/apps/kmail/mail';
please make sure that you can view and modify the content of the folder '/home/tony'."

This may be in some way related to
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdebase/+bug/324907 which I
recently reported, where $KDEHOME was not being set anywhere, though in
this case I HAVE set $KDEHOME as ~/.kde.

It would appear that not everything has been moved into ~/.kde after
all.

I am using the KDE4.2 packages released recently, Kmail 1.11.0, using KDE4.2.0
Kubuntu 8.10, AMD-64

** Affects: kdepim (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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kmail fails if ~/.kde4 unavailable
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/327236
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